Studs Terkel

At 3:25 p.m. on April 24, 1915, a group of Midwestern authors held their first official meeting in Club Room No. 1 of the Auditorium Hotel, kick-starting an organization of writers that would still be in existence a century later. That group was the first iteration of the Society of Midland Authors, which will celebrate its centennial May 1-2. The organization's annual awards banquet will be May 1, honoring titles published in 2014 by authors who live in, were born in, or have strong ties to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The winners of the awards, in its current, six-category format since 1957,...

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